What store/stores would you hate to see close down because they have the things that you need to buy?

[sage2021]

Stores are closing down by the thousands (hundreds?) and there's really no where to shop that's close by anymore.
Shopping online is dangerous because of fraud and recently because of AI.
It makes me wonder 🤔 what life will be like when the stores and restaurants are all closed down? A ghost city maybe?

[NathanDavis]

anything modern...

as they will stop updating your device

[NathanDavis]

and they might even shut it down entirely, if a cloud based/server is in place

[Sal_Monella]

Amazon. Family Dollar. Dollar General. My local supermarket.

[exitseven]

I loved Sears. Craftsman tools, Die Hard batteries and Kenmore appliances were always good quality Made in USA products.. There are only 6 Sears stores left. There is one not to far away but it looks like a yard sale and there is no electronics dept.

Sears Had Everything: The decline of an American institution

I also miss Radio Shack. There are a couple of devices I could repair if I had a few parts that I could always find at Radio Shack.

[sage2021]

@exitseven

My heart broke when they closed Sears down. Why?

Those Craftsman tools were guaranteed for a lifetime. If your tool broke you could just take it back to Sears and they would replace it with no questions asked!!

Radio Shack had stuff no other stores had! I went to the close out sale at our local Radio Shack in 2017. I was so sad the whole time I was in there.😔

[exitseven]

Americans would rather buy a cheap piece of junk from China to save ten bucks on an electric drill and then buy it again in a couple of years instead of buying an American made one that will last 20 years. I still have my Craftsman drill and Jig Saw, The circular saw finally died a couple of years agp. It was more than 20 years old

[sage2021]

@exitseven

Too bad you couldn't use your lifetime warranty because they closed the darn stores down!! 😔

[exitseven]

I had a Craftsman sump pump that the switch wore out. I brought it back to the store but theyu told me that they no longer made sump pumps but they had a crappie made in china pump on the shelf so I ended up taking that. It lasted s couple of years I think.

[RandomGirl42]

I'd really be sad if our little local store closed down because it's close and it's local and it's just part of our history around here but so many things are changing so fast.

[exitseven]

We had a local store here that was in business for over a hundred years. It still had wooden floors and they had their own butcher shop that had really good meat. It was bought by a local chain and it was not the same and a coupe of years ago it closed and the building was bulldozed. It isa little strip mall now. Really sad.

[sage2021]

@exitseven
When I was just 4 years old we would take my grandma to Sears in downtown Los Angeles, CA.
I loved going there even back then. My favorite department was the CANDY department. I always bought the same chocolate candy there. The counter was huge and had two sides filled with candy and chocolate candy.

[exitseven]

Yes, I remember the candy counter. When i was a kid my father bought a swimming pool at Sears. We carried it home in the old station wagon and my father set it up in the back yard and we filled it up with a garden hose. We had a lot of fun in that pool. WE had it for about ten years and I sold it to the sister of a woman that I worked with. She even paid me a hundred bucks to set it up in her backyard.

[sage2021]

@exitseven
We had one of those pools too. 12 ft. by 4ft. They called them doughboy pools. I don't know why?🤔

[exitseven]

I think this was a 15 footer but it had a filter and a vacuum cleaner.

[DonaldDarko]

I generally don't like to see any businesses close. Except for sleazy ones like bars, head shops, places that are known to be crooked. I don't give a shit about those places.

[CherryLove007]

Nordstroms Rack... my first real job was at Nordstroms 🍒

[Xawyx-2]

Any food store that have tasty food in it :P

[robocop666]

medicinal mushroom stores. I like some of them.

[Raydergman26]

Walmart and Kroger and mijer and target

[AgentG111]

Country and Western stores.